Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

I'd say that while it's normal to long for an apology, if you really need it, you're not ready to speak to whoever harmed you. Non-apologizers tend to walk on a tightrope of defensiveness above a huge canyon of low self-esteem - they just can't listen to anything that's going to set them off balance. So focus on what you say for your own sake, because you need to hear your own voice telling the truth.